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Music In America
Music in Amreica
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Music
Undergraduate 2
10/14/2013

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A lively dance in 2/4 originating from Bohemia
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Polka
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Two ways to play "blue" notes
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Playing in between the cracks, bending the notes
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Music you enjoy at home with family and friends
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parlor music
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a sustained tone or tones which provide underpinning
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drone
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A repeated melodic and or rhythmic motif
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ostinato
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An african instrument now common in American country and fold music
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banjo
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Two pro- confed. signature songs of the south:
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dixie and maryland, my maryland.
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2 causes the Hutchinson family campaigned for (or against)
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prohibition, slavery
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Common themes of 1800s songs
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feminine themes, hot air balloons, cars, loss and longing
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Explain how our nation anthem was written
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drinking song and poem with Francis scott key
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who is Papageno and how did he make his way into parlor music?
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Papageno was a character from the Magic Flute
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Before office, government and factory building were constructed in the 1800s the was was the customary place for conducting most buisness
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Why is dance generally controversial in Christian-based cultures such as early america?
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dance thought to be unpure and therefore controversial
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what was one style of dance in colonial america that was viewed as blashopmous?
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couples dances such as the waltz
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classify the instrument: organ
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wind
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classify the instrument: piano
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percision
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classify the instrument: harpsichord
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string
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one of the first examples of secular music in early US was
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harmoniemusik
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military music for morale building
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espirit de corpes
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small brass band (also woodwind) music paid for by military officers at social venues
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harmoniekmusik
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a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for finical benefit or professional reasons:
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amateur
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Marching music played by primarily fifes and drums and funded by the military
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Field Music
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ballad opera premerining in 1794 in pHILLY. ON THE AMERICAN STAGE IT WAS TRANSFORMED FROM A GRUESOME BRITISH TALE TO A SINEY-ESQUE play with a happy ending
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children in the woods
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from philly, lawyer, judge, 1st american born, degreed composer
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francis hopkinson
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virginian, lawyer, music hobbyist, and harpsichord collector
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thomas jefferson
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a keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by a plectrum ( a small piece of wood bone, leather, or quill)
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harpsichord
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A single, unaccompanied instrument or voice
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monophony
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most western popular music can be classified as
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homophony
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rare in western music and standard in African and arabian music. there are >1 instrument or coice creating the same melody line, yet each creating music texture via variation but not necessarily creating harmonies
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Heterophony
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Wrtten txt, lyrics,a dn dialog for an opera (minis the music )
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libretto
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French-language opera company led by John Davis from 1822-1861 which included ballet and pre-performance dancing (balls)
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theatre d' orleans
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what did jenny lind endorse?
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beds, sheet music, gloves
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what was the 1st opera star in the us? where did she debut and what laugne?
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Maria Garcia. Itallian debut in Boston. she was the first diva
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what was the 2nd opera star int he US? where did she come form and who was her sponder?
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euro. sponsor was barnum, the theatre owner. Jenny lind from sweeden.
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how did the fact that "home sweet home" bring a british composition affect its popularity?
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It made it more popualar. however, it had no copyrights.
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what 7yr event made opera music possible on the west coast?
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the gold rush
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who was andrew law?
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created the shape note // religious entrepenure
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who were little and smith?
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fine tuned law's shape note and copyrighted it to make money
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why did people blame william billing for the dark age of Protestant psalm signing?
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relied in the originals with out deviiaiton
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5 things that were change or undine by 1804 because of the "dark age" reform
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unrulyness
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how did shape note singing help the congregation return to the rightful psalm singing?
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no more improvisation, helped those who were not music literate and acted at a layman for the musical congression
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whos idea was it to move the melody to the soprano part in choirs?
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andrew law
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what were the negative of the "dark age" reform?
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limited musical creativity
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Or "solfege" is a method of note learning and pitch identification used primarily but singers
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solemnization
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intellectual, moral or spiritual improvement
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edification
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when a silence of weak beat replaced the expected strong beat
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syncopation
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someone who earns a profit from business relating to church
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religious entrepreneurs
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four issues that traditionalists had with the camp meeting
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not part of any official worship program
african americans mixed with whites
their adaptations of hymns
some poeple danced
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name 3 services provided by travelling music theatre groups in colonial amreica
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music lessons
concerts
participate in church music
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known primarily for its cynicism and social/political criticism, this english work of 1728 by john gay was a forerunner of the american musical and was popular in both colonial america and England
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beggars opera
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what was unusual and controversial about the new custom of holding concerts in a venue such as trinity church on wall street?
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charging money to go into a church
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explain how brass instruments evolved form straight bugles to the modern day trumpet/ cornet for example
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the development of valves allowed for range
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what was patrick gilmores main inspiration for the national peace jubilee in 1869
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bring high quality music to all
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how did the saxhorn change the sound of the band
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it gave a more blended sound
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why was the music publishing industry strong int he 1800s?
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it was the best way to reach a wide audiance
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name 4 types of mu that would be found on the program at a typical band concert in the 1800s
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polka, classical, walktz, quadrille
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two poluar touring ensembles int he mid1800s
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germania mu society and the austiran s. ensamble
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family of brass instruments in gratuated sizes similar to an upright ruba
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saxahorn
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two popular dance forms in the 1800s that made their way into instrumental music forms for listening
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quadrille and schottische
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type of concert brought to the US by louis jillian where audience can stroll and socialize while the music is being played: there tickets were cheap
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promenade concert
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founded in 1815 this organizations mission was to improve and promote sacred music performance and workd of the prominent euro masters
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boston handel and hayden society
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a large scale religious work for chorus, orchestra, solo singers
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oratorio
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